Save Gender Masculine Usage Chinese Scripts 黑肩(Chinese) Meaning & History From the characters 黑 (hei, meaning “black”) and 肩 (jian, meaning “shoulder”). This was the name of Duke Huan of Zhou (周桓公), a retainer and minister under King Huan of Zhou (周桓王) during the Zhou Dynasty (c. 1046 - 256 BCE).